Photography Masterclass

Week 1(Thursday 14 October 5pm) - How a camera Works  

•Types of camera, Basic camera functions, Camera modes, Exposure triangle, Crop factor, Focus, Sunny 16

Week 2 (Thursday 21 October 5pm)– History

•What is a photograph, The first photograph, Decisive moment, Talbot, Analogue and digital, Light

Week 3 (Wednesday 27 October 5pm)– Basic Composition

•Rule of thirds, Verticals, Horizons, Landscapes, Golden ratio, Negative space, Leading lines, Balance and symmetry, Backgrounds

Week 4 (11 November 5pm) – Perspectives

•Lenses, How lenses alter perspective, Wide v telephoto, Basic composition

Week 5 (18 November 5pm) – Colour 

•Colour, White Balance, black and white

Week 6 (25 November 5pm) - Light

•Types of light, Lighting

Competition theme:

Celebrations

Michaelmas term commencing Week 8

Thursday 14 October -  Thursday 25 November 2021

Competition deadline:  Sunday 5th December 2021 at 23:59 GMT

Competition winner announced: Friday 10 December 2021

• By submitting an image for publication in LSE Photography Masterclass you are making a contribution to the LSE website. The LSE website's Terms of use therefore apply. You are advised to familiarise yourself with these before submitting any images as submission implies acceptance of these terms.

• By contributing an image you agree to grant LSE a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the image (see Contributing to the website). This requires that you own the copyright to the image and ensures that copyright remains with you as the contributor.

• Privacy and data protection is important (see Privacy and data protection).  This is especially the case when the image portrays somebody other than you as the contributor see Section 4.2.1 (a) under Contributing to the website).

• This competition is only open to LSE students whom have signed up and participated to the photography masterclass. Entries will not be accepted if submitted by photographers who are not a current student.

• By participating in the competition, the participant has agreed to have his/her entry featured on the LSE’s website and other online platforms. If featured, the photo will be credited to the person, who uploaded the entry.

• There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter this competition.

• The competition entries must be submitted by 23:59 GMT on 3 January 2020 LSE accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, ineligible, corrupted or fail to be submitted by the relevant closing date for any reason. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid.

• Entrants to the competition should ensure their image is appropiate for viewing

• 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize winners will be selected by our panel of judges and contacted privately email to arrange delivery of their prize.

• The winner of the People’s Choice prize will be the photo that receives the most votes online by the competition closing date. Carl Goodwin Photography will create a shortlist of images for voting based upon image quality and relevance to the theme. Not all submissions are guaranteed to make it onto the shortlist.

• LSE’s decision is final. No correspondence will be entered into.

• Prizes are non-transferrable and no cash alternative will be offered.

• The winner agrees to the use of their name and image in any publicity material. Any personal data relating to the winner and any other entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party.

• By entering this competition each entrant confirms that their submissions are their wholly-owned creations and that, to the extent that such entries make use of any third party materials, these have been fully cleared unless they are no longer protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights.

• By submitting an entry, each entrant grants the University a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to edit, publish, translate, modify, adapt, make available and distribute the entry throughout the world in any media now known or hereafter invented.

• Each entrant also confirms that anyone depicted in an entry has given their permission for the inclusion of their image in the entry and the use of the entry including their image by the entrant and LSE.

• The competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by or associated with Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or any other social network. You are providing your submission to the LSE and not to any other party.